Ella's art project...

Ella has a really fun art program in her school. They have art once a week on Wednesdays. Last Wednesday they made paper sculptures. So Ella got the family paper sculpting.



This is Ella's up close.

We all, even Linc and Jack, sat and cut paper and made beautiful creations. Some people took it a little seriously. Cough, cough, JASON. I guess he thought we were turning them into school. But now we can be sure where Ella got her creativity from.

And here is that fabulous creation made by Jason:



Check out the frog. You can't see it, but he even has a fly on his tongue. You probably didn't know he was an artist...

Fun was had by all!!!!

Prayers and Jack's Belated Birthday Blog

Jack turned five since I blogged last. I can't believe he can go to kindergarten in the fall!!!! It really is unbelievable to me.

He was able to celebrate his birthday again and again, of course. The picture above was the day we celebrated with Jason's mom and sister-in-law. But he also celebrated earlier in the month with my family before Aaron and Meghan went to Africa. And we celebrated on his birthday with ice cream at McDonald's and then we had a couple friends over for a bonfire in the back yard.

It was a good birthday. And he is a good boy. I am loving watching him grow!!!!!



This is Lincoln a couple mornings ago. Can you believe those eyes??? They aren't even photo shopped and they are so gorgeous! He has a milk mustache.

I wanted to blog his recent prayer - it was just so cute. Read it in a slow, sweet baby voice to get the full effect:

"thank you for grandpa, uh,

thank you for ice cream,

thank you for sprinkles, and

thank you for fire truck shirt.

AMEN!"

Too precious. Love that he is really thinking about what he is thankful for - he had seen grandpa that day, worn a fire truck shirt and ate ice cream with sprinkles.

And it really is the little things, isn't it? Like sprinkles and fire truck shirts. What more could a boy ask for really????